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Mensa Moltke
Designer: J. Mayer H. Architects
Location: Karlsruhe, Germany
Image Credits: David Franck
A new canteen for the Technical College, Teacher Training College and the State Academy for Fine Art has been completed north of the Moltkestrasse. This new address will form an attractive new centre for the campus where the disciplines can meet, eat and exchange ideas.
The canteen’s location in the Moltkestrasse in the transitional zone between the built up campus to the south and the natural open space of the Hartwald Forest to the north. This is a spot where the character of the campus area is particularly clear. The orientation of the building, with its generously glazed facades, is toward the urban life of the campus, from where the diners arrive.
→ archdaily.com
Posted: 01/15/2009
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East Meets West
Designer: Bokja
Location: n/a
Bokja is a Beirut-based design studio founded by Hoda Baroudi and Maria Hibri with the goal to combine the handicraft of local skilled artisans with the sleek lines of modernist furniture. The balanced juxtaposition makes for a very exciting collection.
→ reubenmiller.typepad.com
Posted: 01/15/2009
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Raffinati Store
Designer: Blazys Gérard
Location: Montreal, Canada
Image Credits: Steve Montpetit
The Raffinatti boutique took its conceptual inspiration from the folding and unfolding of the garment. First, a horizontal pliage holds the main garment area and its changing rooms. The second, a vertical intervention holds the second garment area as well as the service point of this high end shop.
The general impact is one of purity. A myriad of whites is used to climate different uses. In fact the serviced and principal circulation is in a glossy finish that allows for a reflection of the user. On the opposite side, the principal shopping area collects a more mat and architectural feel in order to soften the clothing of this line that caters to the female genre. The garments are suspended on sculptural and airy structures leaving the floor of this 600 square foot space empty of any clutter.
→ www.contemporist.com
Posted: 01/15/2009
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Casa Monte na Comporta
Designer: Pereira Miguel Arquitectos
Location: Grândola, Portugal
Image Credits: ultimasreportagens.com
Casa Monte na Comporta in Grândola, Portugal is a house that sits in its surroundings as if it had always been there yet it also manages to look completely fresh, cool, new and spectacular.
The house’s undulating shape echoes the gently sloping sand dunes, and its hard and angular surface planes contrast beautifully with the rounded shapes of the surrounding trees.
→ www.thecoolhunter.net
Posted: 01/15/2009
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House of Georg Spreng
Designer: C18 Architects
Location: Wissgoldingen, Southern Germany
Image Credits: Brigida Gonzalez
Here – on a southwest slope – C18 Architects built a residential house with a studio for the jewellery designer Georg Spreng and his family. Towards the street the building is closed; it attracts attention with its cladding of white square tiles. The buildings cubic shape also distinguishes it from its neighbours. Even if the house is closed towards the street, it doesn’t close itself to the neighbours. A tower room with a window facing the street positions the building in the neighbourhood. No fence hinders visitors from entering the premises and looking over a wall onto a pond in an open atrium and into the living area. At this point two entrances lay symmetrically to each side. They both have red emergency shutdown buttons as bell buttons. From this standing point one can already notice a considerable lot about this house; the way it entangles inside and outside and that it is a special house.
→ yatzer.com
Posted: 01/15/2009
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